Physiology of Free Will. Mark Hallett, MD

Dr. Mark Hallett is Chief of the Human Motor Control Section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Hallett obtained his MD at Harvard University, interned at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and trained in neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He had fellowships in neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health and at the Institute of Psychiatry in London.From1976to1984,Dr.HallettwastheChiefoftheClinical Neurophysiology Laboratory at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and worked up to Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. From 1984, he has been at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke where he also served as Clinical Director of NINDS until July 2000. He is past President of the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine and the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society and also served as Vice-President of the American Academy of Neurology. Currently he is President of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. He has served as Editor of many journals and books and has had many honors. His work mainly deals with principles of motor control and the pathophysiology of movement disorders. Dr. Hallett’s interests in motor control are wide-ranging, and include brain plasticity and its relevance to neurological disorders and the pathophysiology of dystonia, parkinsonism, and myoclonus. Recently he has become interested in disorders of volition, including tics and psychogenic movement disorders.

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